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Though long a popular draw in theater and nightclubs, Durante was never a top smash in either radio or movies (see CINEMA) . It now seems clear that TV was invented, in part at least, as a frame for his special talents. The dynamic Durante personality, a sort of mixture of W. C. Fields and Donald Duck, triumphs over old routines and standard jokes. In an opera cloak and top hat, he achieves a Chaplinesque dignity as he insists that Tannhäuser is by Puccini, and in his shocked horror at an ill-bred friend who, says Durante in moral...
Captain Dave Nathan's Winthrop football team played alert football yesterday afternoon to defeat Davenport, 12 to 0. Dick Manning scored in the opening minutes of the game on an 80 yard off tackle smash, and Walt Greeley passed to Jim Fykoff for the extra point. Frank Hernberg passed to John deSaint Phalle for the final score...
Lowell opened its game against Dudley with a strong offense that produced a touchdown after three first downs. The march started on the Lowell 45 with a 25 yard off-tackle smash by Ted Briggs and ended with Bruce White going over for the score from the three yard line. Dudley's Paul deVergie blocked the conversion. Bellboy Bill Brown scored off-tackle on the last play of the first period...
This year's theatre season has turned up no smash hits so far. The best entertainment in both plays and musicals is left over from last season; chances are if a show holds on for more than a year, it's worth seeing...
...trip from London to Boston was long, but it should take even longer for "Edwina" to reach New York from its present stand. Billed as a "London smash," this new play by William Dinner and ican tastes differ. Over here, it is a long, tedious William Morum proves again that British and Amerwhodunit, colored by an unsatisfying love affair...